Author's Notes: WARNING NON-CON. Happy Hallow's Eve! Hopefully this gets published in time for the spooky season! If not, well, belated treat!
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"I hear that if you walk across the Witch's Graveyard at midnight, her spectre will come and show you the worst, most horrifying, scariest thing of your life. I can't believe I listened to them," Darla, 23, said as she stepped over the gnarled root of a nearby tree. She waved her phone around, the flashlight shining the light around to illuminate her path. "But, if you can get through it, you'll be granted untold riches and desires." She said in a mocking voice. "What a crock of shit."
She looked down at her screen, seeing the messages and reactions that were coming in from her watchers and followers of her livestream. "Well, at least I have you all to keep me company. I've got plenty of battery. I think I'm about halfway through here by now." Messages popped up on her screen.
"You can do it!"
"I bet she'll wuss out."
"No way it's real."
"Is she actually doing this?"
"Show us your front cam!"
Darla rolled her eyes and shook her head. It wasn't easy being one of the most popular girls at school. Hell, she should have been at a party anyways, impressing Timothy Grene with how far her legs can bend; But no, she was here, taking some dark and long forgotten path in the forest in the middle of the night on a stupid challenge. If it weren't for her friends showing her the $20,000 reward for video proof of the challenge and the Witch's, she wouldn't even be out here.
"This money had better be worth it," Darla said as she steeled up her resolve to keep pressing forward. She clutched her lavender sweater tighter around her as the wind blew her platinum blonde hair backwards. "I hope you're watching Blake. This is for your money."
"Get that witch!"
"Damn, must be cold."
"We're all watching."
Darla spun around quickly on her heels as she heard something stir behind her. She pointed her phone toward the source, only to see a small squirrel running around. "Ugh! You freaking scared me! Get out of here!" She shooed away the squirrel before turning back on her path. "Well, everyone, we're now about thirty minutes into the Witch's Challenge, and so far, not a single witch in sight. I better still get my money if there's no witch."
The chat filled with more supporting messages, along with the occasional messages that were about her showing off her body. Normally, she would go for it, but it was just too cold, and to be honest, she was too scared. She just wanted to go back, get her money, and get a nice hot shower.
"WHAAA!"
Darla planted face first into the ground, having not seen a tree root that caught on her right foot. There was a loud SPLAT as she landed into a puddle in the ground. Her sweater was absolutely soaked on the front with a large brown stain in it. Mud had splattered onto her cheeks and up her arms as well. Her phone had, thankfully, avoided the puddle and landed on the ground nearby, screen down.
She got her foot free and turned the camera to herself, showing everyone what just happened. "UGH! I fucking tripped and fell in this puddle and, Blake, you are fucking paying for my dry cleaning!"
"Oh shit that looks bad."
"Wet t-shirt contest!"
"Oh Blake is a dead man."
"Lol"
Now, she was utterly furious that she was even colder, with her sweater no longer providing any warmth. She groaned and kept moving forward, trudging along and thinking even more about the shower and the money. "And that dry cleaning is not coming out of my reward mon- Oh shit!"
Ahead of Darla was a small light in the distance. She turned her camera towards it, but the forest was too dense to see what it was. She turned off the light and slowly moved closer towards it. "Guys, I think I found something."
"Oh shit"
"What's going on?"
"Is she in a forest?"
"Where she?"
"I'm going to get a closer look." Darla slowly inched closer and closer towards the light, growing in size, but not moving. As the brush became less and less dense, she began to see what was the source of the light.
In a medium sized clearing was a small cabin with the lights on. It looked to be made from trees nearby and smoke was coming out of a chimney. It was probably about the size of a shipping container, so decently livable. Vines had grown up the side of it and there was a decently sized garden in the backyard that looked to have various different plants and flowers growing.
"There's a house out here?" Darla asked as she crouched down, trying to get a closer look. She zoomed in closer with her camera as she began to approach it.
"No way she found it"
"Witch gonna get her."
"Where is this?"
"OOOO BLAKE OWES HER MONEY"
Quietly, Darla made her way to the nearest window and peeked inside. It looked like an ordinary living room. There was a couch, a rocking chair, and a coffee table, along with a box TV. A rug laid by the front door. The TV was off and there was a cup of something that Darla presumed to be coffee on the table.
"No way," Darla said in a whisper to her livestream as she lifted her camera up to look at the inside of the house. "Oh, Blake, you owe me so-"
A footstep came from right behind Darla with the crunch of the grass. Darla spun around to briefly see a white robed figure wearing a mask with a contorted face lunging at her with a cloth in its hand. Before she even had a chance to scream, the cloth went over her head and she felt all her strength leaving her body. She collapsed on the ground as her head went into a fog.
After some time had passed, Darla's eyes groggily began to open up. The first thing she noticed was that her wrists had been bound by rope, outstretched to both sides and holding her arms out wide. They had a little give, but she wasn't able to bring them closer to her body. She tried to move her legs, only to find that they had been bound as well, but it felt like the rope went towards the ceiling.
Secondly was a soft humming and the sounds of gently boiling water. Darla tilted her head up to see a young woman, likely around her early 20s, standing in front of a large black cauldron that rested over a small charcoal fire. The woman had her back turned to Darla and hadn't seemed to notice Darla waking up. She was also holding a book in one hand and was stirring with a ladle with the other. Darla turned her head to look at the rest of the room. It was definitely a basement of sorts, based on the cobwebs and the wood of the ceiling. Most of the room was filled with bookshelves and various bottles with colorful liquids inside of them. They were all labelled in a language that Darla didn't recognize.
Finally, Darla noticed how much colder the air felt. She looked down and saw herself in only her pink bra and panties.
"What the fuck!?" Darla shouted uncontrollably.
The woman at the cauldron stopped what she was doing and turned around to face Darla. Getting a better look at her, Darla could see that the woman had a pale complexion with freckles dotted all over her cheeks. She had curly brunette hair that spiralled down to her waist and round glasses. She was also wearing a long white robe, which contoured to her skin. It certainly showed off plenty of cleavage to, what Darla estimated were D cups.
"Oh, you're awake," the woman said, resting her head on her hand and looking at Darla.
"What the fuck is going on? Where the hell am I? Why am I naked?" Darla spewed a flurry of questions at the woman, who simply looked at Darla.
"Well, you're not naked. You're still wearing your bra and panties," the woman said, pointing out the two articles of clothing that Darla had.
"That's not the point!" Darla shouted as she struggled to break free of her bondage. "Where the fuck are my clothes? Where's my phone!?"
The woman simply pointed over to where Darla's sweater, undershirt, and pants were hanging up on a wire. All of them were clean, but looked to be in the process of drying. "Your stuff was dirty and covered in mud, so I took them off you so you wouldn't get cold." Sitting on the table near her clothes was the mask that Darla had seen attack her and Darla's phone. The phone had been tilted up and rested against containers and the screen facing away from them.
"What the fuck? You undressed me!?" Darla turned her head towards her phone. "Hey! Guys! Call the cops! Help! I'm kidnapped here!" However, she had no idea whether or not the phone was actually turned on. She turned her attention back to the robed woman. "You're gonna get arrested for kidnapping me if you don't let me go!"
The woman tilted her head in an inquisitive look. "But, aren't you the one who was trespassing on my territory?"